red-faced

comparative more red-faced · superlative most red-faced · alternative redfaced

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.

   A red-faced bird with a striking white head and underside, and black-and-white wings and tail, the Palmnut Vulture lives in tropical forested areas of Africa, often by lakes, rivers, and seashores.

   2004, Robin Chittenden, Birds of Prey of the World, page 31

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   I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.

   1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18

2. With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
   1. broadlyembarrassed

      A red-faced John edged his way quietly out of the room.

   2. broadlyinebriate

      Coming home late and red-faced every night from the pub is not what I expected of you.

   3. broadlyangry

      The customer gave a red-faced account of the argument with the waiter.

   4. broadlyflustered

      "I can't for the life of me think where I left the tickets!", she cried out, red-faced.

   5. broadlyexhausted

      He collapsed, red-faced from the effort, against the door jamb.